The fighting is between the Tabu tribal militia, which killed a member of the Abu Seif tribe in the city, and a militia of city dwellers from Sabha, the only major city in southwestern Libya.

The National Transitional Council (NTC) sent 300 troops yesterday in an attempt to calm the fighting. The troops ended up caught up in the fighting early on, and by the evening there were reports that they had fled to the outskirts of town. The NTC deployed another 300 troops today, but it isn’t clear when they will arrive.

Tabu chief Abdel Majid Mansour claimed that the violence was an attempt to “ethnically cleanse” his faction, and threatened to launch a full scale secessionist bid, citing South Sudan as a model. With attempts to establish an autonomous region already active in Cyrenaica, this would be the second major campaign for the fledgling NTC to tackle.

It was Joe Biden who wanted to divide Iraq to smaller section so US could have a better governing situation, placing their puppets doing what US wanted, he was also active during balkan war having the same idea. As you can see the Libyan map already divide the West from east into two countries, here the US and EU are active doing the same, as they gradually made up the map of Palestine to Israeli map they are doing the same thing in Libya by dividing the Libyan people, that is the general idea and its been the general US (Joe Biden) idea for last 40 years. Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Libya and……… weakup people they are stealing your country by dividing you as a nation.

Jaime

Libya must be an easier country to split because in the absence of Ghadaffi, there is not a national native elite that can oppose the evil intentions from the west. Iraq, although fractured along ethnic and religious lines, kept native elites with the wherewithal to put limits to US ambitions. Moreover, they -especially the Shiites and to a lesser degree the Sunnis- are aware that a divided Iraq won't be good for anybody, except for the Kurds.

Nathan

If the Arabs knew any better they would have completed their unfinished revolution in Egypt, and would have supported the dictator Qaddafi over the NATO killing machines, as their dictator was a lot better than what they have (actually not have) now.

R.C.

I wonder where are all the "cruise missile liberals" are from Pacifica, the Huffington Post and Hollywood who claimed that Libya would be MUCH "better off without Ghadaffi?" How is it that these supposed humanitairan interventionists turn out to be worse than their right wing counter-parts?

tommy

it was LENIN who described the league of nations as a DEN OF THIVES this was the for runner to the u.n. which has carried on the stealing. LIBYA is a country all the usa ,uk and the other warmongers have done is try to smash it up. to steal the oil.